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New issue of @AHPBUK humanistic psychology journal Self & Society is out now. Almost half of its typically thoughtful content is free to read here: ahpb.org/index.php/nl-2…

Exposing the failures of #IAPT in your area - a video for #counselling & #psychotherapy campaigners

"Build and support campaigns to challenge forms of psy practice that manage and maintain the social and emotional injustices of modern capitalism" Free online event: Sat 15th Oct, 2022

The 'work cure' gets a funding boost.

In 2015 I signed - along with 400+ therapists and academics - the The Guardian letter below. Terrible to see this anti-therapeutic scheme given £millions now. As we said then, ‘“Get to work” therapy is manifestly not therapy at all’. That hasn’t changed. theguardian.com/society/2015/a…

Michael Brazendale Yes. Be good to raise a voice against this - #workcure #psychocompulsion Therapy used to force people with MH problems into work. Deeply unethical and damaging for some. It has a history, and so has campaigning against it - youtu.be/NF3vjwTrM3M

Data from the ONS analysed by YoungMinds: ‘Suicide rates among young people aged 15-19 in England rose by 35 per cent from 2020 to 2021’ Read it again… If you want to do something about the state of mental health provision in this country,come along👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/uact-public-…

'Real therapy does not aim to return individuals to the workplace or to keep them in jobs that may be economically insecure, psychologically toxic, systemically oppressive and personally damaging.' Therapists against #psychocompulsion and the #workcure

Essential read: Dr Jay Watts on #workcure 'To willfully fund employment advisors when mums are sitting outside their children’s bedrooms on suicide watch, when trauma therapy can mean a 5 year wait... is nothing more than sinister' Novara Media novaramedia.com/2022/10/14/the…

Open letter from person-centred academics, writers and trainers calls on #SCoPEd orgs to provide PSA-backed professional home for members opposed to the framework. TPCA #TherapistsConnect allianceblogs.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/per…

New 'Common Good' Youtube channel explores the politics of mental health, NHS mental health services and progressive alternative responses to the growing pandemic of psychological pain and distress in the UK and beyond. First episode: youtu.be/HsvoPHywBvg #TherapistsConnect

"Is it tolerable that the nuances of love, of flourishing, of rapport and presence seem absent from the standards? Will they also be absent from future generations of practitioner work with clients?" New blog on #SCoPEd by Denis Postle. #TherapistsConnect wp.me/p4CQvq-eC

Latest Youtube from The Common Good #3 The Mental Health Crisis - Alia Butt and Paul Atkinson youtu.be/KHRuoHW2wx4?si… via YouTube

Just before #BACP AGM, unprecedented open letter from prominent practitioners, including ex-BACP Chairs, calls on BACP "to repair the relationship between the Board, its staff and its membership" and hints at potential vote of no confidence. #therapistsconnect

And so the legal action against #platformization of therapy begins in the UK. Listen to BBC Radio 4 #FileonFour tonight 8pm Alys Harte examines Employee Assistance Programmes #EAPs bbc.co.uk/news/uk-685372…

In response to the resurgence in talk about statutory regulation of counselling & psychotherapy, we’ve released a statement: wp.me/p4CQvq-eX

You don't have to be a radical therapist to wonder if there's something dodgy about state regulation of independent practice. The case against regulation of therapists PCUnion Partners for Counselling and Psychotherapy @uk_counsell allianceblogs.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/sta… via Alliance for C & P

Good discussion on statutory regulation in this podcast. #TherapistsConnect

Brilliant two-part article from Paul Atkinson on NHS data harvesting by private companies, AI therapy, IAPT and the societal dangers of hollowing out relational #counselling & #psychotherapy 1/2 Machina ex deo - AI and the future of NHS Talking Therapies: mentalhealthaction.uk/wp-content/upl…